Then again how many women go on on a saturday night and get drunk and take home a guy and have unprotected sex. I know friends who have had countless one night stands and caught STDs and yet I have worked for 7 years and never caught anything and I offer owo and cim, but never bareback.

Least with an escort advertising bareback, its clear to the client so they can either book her or not. The clients know they are taking a risk and maybe that's the excitement for them!

What I don't like is the "Groups" of escorts and everyone is advertising bareback. Like a pimp has a few girls working and advertising their profiles as bareback to get the clients there. And the poor escorts may find themselves in a difficult position when the client arrives.

Can anyone remember the ?1 a minute group ?69 bareback and everything included, but has now vanished. I believe this was one example of a pimped group of escorts and someone was managing their profiles and advertising all services to attract clients.

I think some escorts advertise bareback to get clients in and then refuse the service. This is incredibly risky as clients may feel tricked and just take the condom off anyway!

There are also well established porn starts that offer bareback but only if the client has a STD certificate (Which can easily be faked) and the escort charges extra for bareback on top.

So each to there own! But I do think whatever services you decided to offer, every escort should get regular STD testing and look after their sexual health.

I guess it's not for us to judge others for what they do/don't do.

You guess right.

Let's leave the "I wouldn't, therefore you mustn't" arguments to those against sex work. It makes them, and anyone else who uses them, look foolish and intolerant...

The "each individual is entitled to decide on the level of risk they're prepared to take" includes clients too, of course. Fortunately, it tends to be easy to screen out the ones with a distinctly different level to yours: they tend to make it very obvious.

To everyone: we know this a very touchy subject. As previously, can we please take it as read that lots of people here would not offer this as a service? If everyone who didn't said so, it would be a very long and boring thread. We also know that some of the people reading make different choices, including about this.

Someone told me that if you ask for a certificate at the clinic, they will give you one is this true?

"It depends". Some will, and some of those will charge for them.

The big reason for not handing them out generally - and not relying on any that you see without being able to trust the person clutching one, thus ruling out the vast majority of sex work situations - is that they only tell you something about the past.

So for HIV, the usual test will be able to say 'this person very probably didn't have HIV about a month ago'. Anything could have happened in the meantime and if they have caught HIV then, they will be particularly infectious despite having the piece of paper saying the test was HIV-.

There's also no standard format, so it would be easy for someone to run something official looking up themselves.